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‘Status and'Issues: The ARRB staff has agreed to recommend
- to:the Board that the information related to those covert
‘- actions: be considered non-related and the documents
designated | “Not Believed Related” (NBR). The document will

( Alias “Document at ion nd A commodat ion
Addresses. The security file of former Agency employee,
David Morales (deceased -- true name already released),
within the sequestered collection contains documentation on
five of his alias. We anticipate similar problems as we re-
review other security files within the sequestered
collection. The ARRB staff has proposed a compromise
resolution to this problem as follows:

-- Protect all references to ‘official | j}documents

reflecting the alias such as (SSN, Drivers: Permit, etc .7/

= Release items designated as pocket litter such as
club cards, etc.;

-- Protect elements of accommodation addresses to avoid
identifying specific locations; and

-- Then make a decision to actually release or protect
the alias itself depending on the timeframe and its
importance to the JFK story.

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The | DO.. JFK ‘Team is currently. reviewing

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atus and issues: The ARRB will: present. the selected
ial; including a. DO. TMWAVE chart, to the Board | to be

‘ rie-DO’ ‘organization chart

‘be Y Spared in ‘Liew of the records. in? ‘contention. The chart

‘would include those components that were involved in the

Oswald story and anti-Castro activities. These JMWAVE and

. ... DO organization charts have been the subject of several

discussions and meetings with the ARRB staff over the past
few months. The ARRB staff is clearly leaning toward
recommending that the JMWAVE chart be released; an actual
vote on these records by the Board will not take place until
the May meeting.

4. ARRB Request, CIA-IR.-15, Mexico City Tapes.
! - -This..request asked for a thorough search of. Agency files and
’ documents for and CIA “surveillance ~take' from Cuban and
~ Soviet. facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald
‘visit and in the immediate wake of the assassination.
Among the items provided by the DO were five boxes
containing audio tapes from tel-tap on Cuban and Russian
~ embassies and facilities. A number of the tapes are dated
22 November 1963; many others are dated 23 November 1963
through December 1963.

Status” and. “eeu “the ARRB ‘staff has asked the question,

‘what’.could possibly be sensitive or classified on the tapes
iven that we have acknowledge a tap on the

-Sembassies and the existence of the tapes is public
~ knowledge. ty plans additional information from the Do,

the ARRB staff/plan o present the issue to the Board at
the 13 April m ng and request that it declare at least

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the tapes from 22 and 23 November to be Assassination
Records. A vote on releasing the tapes will be delayed
until the May meeting.

(Ss 5. (LITAMIL-9/ -- a CIA Penetration (o£ the Cuban/
Embassy). The identity of EETAMEL @ pas inadvertent
released in 1993. He is now/identified in true name_as a
CIA ath John Newman's book, Oswald and the CIA.

1993, {LITAMIL-9/was still alive, living i i
he has family in (Cuba } Up to now, the ARRB Board has agre
to protect his identity and crypt and delay the release of
his 201 file until the Agency could make some judgments
about the potential damage created by the release on
additional documents with his name/crypt in them.

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Status and Issues: The ARRB has requested that we address
LI-9)issue at the May meeting. The DO has confirmed that
LI-9/is still alive and living in{Mexico City). The HRP/DO
JFK teams are currently reviewing the 201 and other/LI-9
material in the file. It is unlikely that the Board would
agree to delay release until 2017, however, there is

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precedent for delaying release of records on individuals for

shorter periods or until death.

(S) 6. Richard Gibson, CIA asset. _ .Gibson, . who presently
‘lives in England, is a left wing journalist who was

associated with the Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPFCC) , an)

entity to which Oswald wrote letters and claimed to be a

member. Gibson did not become an Agency asset until after_p~

‘che a: assassination, however,;-he had been of interest to the
FBI when _he headed the FPFCC. Unfortunately a combination
of previous releases and release by the Board led to press

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reports in 1994/1995 about his relationship with the CIA. At
‘ithat time, CIA officers were dispatched to advise him t about ]

(the possible compromise and promise him the very best

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attempt at protecting the relationship. ARRB also agresd /

to delay the release of any additional information until t
Agency and FBI had determined the full extend of the files

\on Gibson and the potential damage. ~

The Gibson ‘documents are @ scheduled for

‘Status _ ‘and Issues:

~ARRB action at the May meeting. It appears to be possible _

(to reléase Gibson's role in the JFK assassination story an
) protect his relationship with the Agency in our JFK
~assassination records; however, the FBI has a four volumes”

file which covers both FBI interest and Gibson's aN

‘relationship with the Agency. The HRP/DO JFK teams are ;

currently reviewing the Gibsoti taterial and I will be
meeting with the FBI to review what they are releasing on

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+. This isa major. ‘request. “The board has
ask. for .“the’ office. files. ‘of. the individual occupying - the
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require lots-of :
records of fi mat .
has: developed’ 4° methodology: with the ARRB which provides’ the .
“access required: by. the Board: and guarantees. that’ their 7

“yvyeview is focused. The request is. for access to review the:

files for possible assassination related material and the
Board has no interest in reviewing multiple files which have
3 nothing to, do with the assassination story... A meeting is
‘held | between | the ARRB staff, HRP JFK team and the ©
_. ) appropriate:.IRO™ to. discuss. the scope of the request. —.

“* Usually, the’ ARRB staff-are first provided shelf lists,
indexes, records lists, etc. for the purpose of
narrowing/selection what they think is important. HRP
assist the IRO or component representatives in reviewing
the selected files to ensure they deal with appropriate
subjects and timeframes. Once access is approved, the

_ appropriate IRO and component sets up a file review session
with the ARRB staff. If material: requested is particularly
sensitive, access can be limited to the ARRB Executive
Director or members of the Board. Any records selected as
Assassination Records are subject to review under the JFK

Act. This process has be used for numerous requests for

access including DCI McCone Files, Family Jewels materials,
histories and security files

“this: ‘request wil. by.

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